This study investigated the impact of the Malcolm Baldrige Health Care Criteria for Performance Excellence (HCPE) on effectiveness in health care organizational performance. The quality of health care has tremendous social and economic...

Extensive research in both humans and animals has identified and
isolated distinct brain regions essential for different types of memory,
supporting the notion of multiple memory systems (MMS). The hippocampus and the
striatum are the two systems...

Women in rural western Kenya experience depression, yet few formal treatment options exist. What other options for support are available to these African women suffering from depression? How do these women navigate this “therapeutic landscape” of...

I apply complex systems thinking to investigate the inner workings of an innovative urban youth leadership program to reveal how development organizations can create an ecosystem to cultivate “change”. The global “youth bulge”, globalization, and a...

We develop novel numerical methods for optimization problems subject to constraints given by nonlinear hyperbolic systems of conservation and balance laws in one space dimension. These types of control problems arise in a variety of applications,...